Place:Adel cum Eccup, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

Adel cum Eccup (#1 on the map) is a civil parish made up of the villages of Adel and Eccup. The parish was originally in Wharfedale Rural District, but was transferred to the County Borough of Leeds in 1937. Since 1974 the parish is part of Leeds Metropolitan Borough. From 1880 to 1920 it maintained a population of slightly more that 1,000; but in the 21st century its ward within Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which extends considerably beyond the earlier parish borders, has had a population of around 20,000. Adel was an ecclesiastical parish in the upper division of the wapentake of Skyrack. Eccup was a hamlet within in the parish and part of the same township. Adel was known as Addle up until the 19th century and FamilySearch refers to it by this earlier form. Adel was the original ancient parish for the area and inclued the township of Eccup, the settlements of Cookridge and Holt Park, and formerly that of Arthington (#3) which became a separate parish in 1866. [edit] Adel the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia Adel is now a suburb in the northern part of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Cookridge, Holt Park, Westwood and Alwoodley. To the north is the market town of Otley. In common with many areas of Leeds it is not easy to define the boundaries of Adel, but Adel Church and the two schools are well to the east of Otley Road, the A660, but the post office is on the A660.

Eccup

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Eccup is a village in the north of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is just north of Adel and east of Bramhope and Golden Acre Park. It is the location of the Eccup Reservoir, and it is surrounded mainly by farming land.

The place-name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Echope". It is thought to derive from an Old English personal name Ecca + hōp meaning 'enclosed land amid unpromising land' or 'a small, enclosed valley'. It would therefore mean something like 'Ecca's patch of good land'.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Adel. GENUKI indexes only the ancient parishes. Townships that later became civil parishes are listed on a "supplementary page" following the page for the main parish. The articles only deal with events up until 1820.
• The FamilySearch wiki for Yorkshire (all three ridings) has articles on all parishes--not just ancient parishes.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Addle (or Adel).
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. The location of individual settlements within the parishes is also shown. These maps all expand to a very large scale.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding North 1900 and Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. NOTE: In 2022 the map of the southern section is not available through the Vision of Britain website. It is unknown if this omission is accidental or if the copy used by the university has been damaged in some way.
• Yorkshire West Riding South and Yorkshire West Riding North revised_1944. These two maps illustrate the urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
• A further useful map on A Vision of Britain through Time is a boundary map dated 1917. This shows all the boundaries of villages, townships and parishes in the Holmfirth area.